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Passengers on ExpressJet Airlines flight 2816 from Houston to Minneapolis spent the night trapped inside a small airplane parked at the Rochester, Minn., airport, complete with crying babies and the aroma of over-used toilets, according to reports . After being released, they were reportedly quarantined at the airport terminal until they re-boarded the aircraft.
Being stuck on that plane for 9 1/2 hours 7 hours on the ground was no picnic. The captain was not communicating disney cruise with us at all, and what she did tell us seemed like stalling. Shouldn t we get some kind of compensation out of this mess or is this acceptable?
Who s in charge here? Continental Airlines disney cruise or ExpressJet? Many passengers on the flight had booked their tickets through Continental. According to one passenger, My boarding pass has a huge headline saying Continental. The flight attendant said, 'Thank you for flying Continental. The comment disney cruise cards we were given said Continental. disney cruise Continental is totally in charge, whether disney cruise by ownership or agency." So why is Continental deferring to ExpressJet instead of taking responsibility for this mess?
Why couldn t they let the passengers off the plane in Rochester? ExpressJet spokeswoman Kristy Nicholas claimed Rochester International Airport didn t have security screeners available to check the passengers. But Steve Leqve, the manager of the Rochester International Airport, said that was incorrect . They wouldn t have had to go through security. They could have come into the airport, he said. Erole suggests Leqve s account is accurate: Another Northwest plane had also landed at Rochester just before us, they were allowed to exit their plane with their luggage and enter the airport at 3 a.m. We sat till 6:30 a.m., being fed lines about the airport is not open and we cannot go in.
Where s the bus? Passengers believed there was a bus that would take them back to the terminal. There was a bus waiting on the other side of the terminal from us at 5 a.m., said the survivor. This was verified by Rochester tower employees. I asked the pilot if there was a bus and she picked up the intercom and announced to the plane, There is no bus . So which is it? Bus or no bus?
Why quarantine the customers? Erole notes the torture didn t end after they got off the plane. Once we were allowed into the airport, we were quarantined to one space at a gate and not allowed to move freely around the airport. I asked the security guard in charge of us why that was, we all were told to have our IDs and boarding passes with us, and the airport was fully operational at this time. He told me he had no idea, it was what the flight crew had told him to do right before they went home, because they had no flying disney cruise hours left, according to the account. disney cruise There must have been a good reason for containing the passengers in one area. What it is, we don t know.
There s a silver lining to the dark cloud hanging over Continental, ExpressJet, and the dozens of angry passengers who were stuck on the tarmac. Their story will bring awareness to the issue of tarmac delays, disney cruise which is currently being debated in Congress.
The airline industry and its apologists are pushing for a final version of the bill that leaves it up to airlines to determine when to roll back to the gate. They say this common sense approach allows them to be flexible and keeps the government out of the airline industry, which is where they say it belongs.
Well, here s a thought: Maybe we should invite some of the airline lobbyists and their surrogates to spend nine hours on a regional jet with overflowing toilets, surly crewmembers and screaming babies.
ExpressJet is a company that is in dire financial straits .Point 1. This is an example of a complete operational meltdown, to the point where their PR woman is openly telling lies to a respected member of the media Point 2. This is a clear case where the pax MUST follow up with forceful legal action against them hopefully disney cruise they can collect on the judgment before the bankruptcy filing. The court filing MUST hold Continental jointly and severally liable for all damages since they were the merchant disney cruise of sale on the transaction and the COC is in their name. Nobody goes out to buy a ticket on ExpressJet, they bought from CO. Point 3 here is the shameful attitude and shrugging shoulders of CO. They lobbied for anti-trust immunity and this is how they repay the nation a company that has gone bankrupt and screwed disney cruise creditors and employees more times than any other airline in US aviation history. Nice work if you can get it.
I don t know the ruiles, so this is all conjecture, but I have always assumed staying on the tarmac rather than letting passengers deplane is all about the increased cost to the airline for using the gate am I wrong?
I think in an instance like this the passengers disney cruise should have had enough, gottne disney cruise up and opened the door of the aircraft or the slide and left. It s time that passengers stopped acting like sheep and started thinking for themselves in cases like this.
I would have been very tempted to get all the passengers disney cruise to leave that area of the airport they were all corralled in. I did something similar back when our local train service were having delays. There were hundreds of people on the platform waiting. They announced that the train was going to be on a different platform and since the station was too packed to move everybody walked across the tracks. Then they announced the train was going to be on the original track and everybody walked disney cruise back across the tracks. Finally they announced it was going to be on the first track they said after all.
But this time they d sent an Amtrak disney cruise cop down to prevent anybody walking across the track. I just started shouting everybody follow me! what are they going to do arrest 500 people? . The impulse to defer to authority no matter how clearly clueless and incompetent it is is so strong in Americans that I got some horrified looks. But the cry had gone out and when I started walking back, first one or two and then several hundreds more followed me.
Chris, who is on the conference committee Re: the FAA reauthorization bill? Those senators and representatives need to be called by everyone who cares about this issue, but especially their constituents. Perhaps you could use your readers to try and get this accomplished to some extent?
BTW we were stuck on a late-arriving jet through no fault of the airline the airport failed to have sufficient crews available to operate the jetbridges at the terminals disney cruise after normal operating hours.
I am not an airline apologist, and nor could I imagine the Hell these people went through. However, I think the term survivor is taking disney cruise this a BIT TOO far. Come on, their lives were not in PERIL. This is like the new Terrorism buzzword. These people were not in danger. They were merely being detained against their will, for X reason. disney cruise While this should NEVER HAPPEN, there might have been a good reason. YES, the airline needs to TELL these passangers what it was, too!
I mean, there could be a number of reasons these people disney cruise were detained. The fact they were quarantined disney cruise and asked for ID leads me to believe ONE of these is true. Now, will these passengers ever know the reason? Maybe or maybe not. I do however smell a lawsuit brewing. I can imagine lawyers are all over this like a rabid animal.
One of the stories I read about this (in USAToday, I think), indicated that part of the problem is that Continental doesn t have gates at Rochester. They were in talks with Delta to use one of their gates, but somehow disney cruise that didn t work out (over fees, probably).
Doesn t matter if they didn t have gates at Rochester. They should disney cruise ve found a way to get those people off that plane. It wasn t like Rochester was being hit by bad weather that meant ground crew couldn t actually get to the plane.
Its totally the fault of ExpressJet. It s real simple. A plane is diverted .the station manager is notified. (FYI .each carrier has a station manager at each airport). I assume Rochester is a small station but that s why someone is in charge. He might not have been happy to have been woken up but its part of the job. Someone goes to the gate so that the plane can pull in and the passengers can disembark. I seriously doubt that there is an airport, disney cruise in particular an airport in an area with bad winters, disney cruise that doesn t have a contingency plan for stranded passengers. But then it really didn t matter ..ExpressJet chose to do nothing and just let the passengers sit there until the station opened. The only thing about this story that makes zero sense to me is the quarantined part. I read in USA Today, (I believe), that the guard that wouldn t let them leave the gate area told a passenger that it was ordered by the crew. That is confusing to me since they have zero authority outside the airplane. Justin; I believe quarantined was term used by a passenger .not the airline or airport.
Since disobeying flight crew instructions could have a singularly negative impact on your ever being able to fly again (or stay out of jail in some cases), about 2 hours into this ordeal passengers should have elected the oldest person on board to grab their chest, breath hard and keep repeating Oh, my god, the pain, oh, I think I m having a heart attack While everyone else yelled, disney cruise Call 911! Is there a doctor? We need an ambulance (and off this $%# plane)!.
Any Senator or Congressmen who does not support the Passenger Bill of Rights needs to be ousted at the polls. Can t wait until a airline Exec or legislator gets caught on one of these horrendous flights.
Well I don t think we ll know for sure what the reason behind this matter is for quite a while. One is going to guess once the lawyers disney cruise get involved, it ll be years before the cause comes out . Yet, let s assume they were quarantined, them my reasons above could be valid. Even if they weren t, it was clear the crew had ordered the people disney cruise to stay put. The guard wouldn t let people leave. Some